“Love Shack” is from The B-52’s 1989 album "Cosmic Thing". The quirky, upbeat dance-rock track became the band’s signature song and biggest commercial hit, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, #1 in Australia, and #1 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was inspired by a real, unheated cabin with a rusted tin roof in the woods outside Athens, Georgia, where Kate Pierson lived and the band threw legendary parties (and worked on early songs like “Rock Lobster”).
It was the band’s first major hit following the death of founding guitarist Ricky Wilson in 1985. The famous improvised line “Tin roof… rusted!” (sung by Cindy Wilson) almost didn’t make the final cut and the music video featured an early cameo by a pre-fame RuPaul.